The early years (1984 to 1988) of the Avengers West Coast. Comprehensive team profile, lots of stuff.

Obscure Batman enemy, only seen once in 1969. He’s Batman’s tailor… and he’s gone rogue ! Duh duh dum !

A big, heavily illustrated article about special-purpose handguns in fiction. So that’s useful to have.

A great space menace from another universe. And one of Marvel Comics’ notable villains. This first profile covers the 1960s and 1970s.

From the Negation book in the Crossgen Universe. Adaptative alien warrior.

The “base camp” page for a large bunch of new, modified and clarified Powers for the DC Heroes tabletop super-hero RPG.

The little faeces-coloured guys with the fangs and small fireballs and electrified spikes in the 1990s Doom video games.

A sort of creepy, evil would-be telepathic Batman from another reality. This is the 1964 version, not the Grant Morrison one. Best read after the Ages of DC Comics and the “base camp” profile for the pre-Crisis Earth-3 Crime Syndicate of America.

This is the original version of the evil Justice League from Earth-3. So, the 1964-1985 take on the concept. “Base camp” article that explains all the things that would be redundant in these guys’ individual profiles. Best read after our guide to the ages and Earths of DC Comics.

A short-ish profile of the Khora warframe from, well, the Warframe video game, for use in tabletop/pen-and-paper RPGs. A strange huntress with a mysterious backstory, a killer cybercat and a magic barbed chain.

This article is where we keep our notes about the Negative Zone in general, as we research stories that take place there. How it works, how to get there, local lifeforms, area codes, etc..

Our contributor Ethan continues his 1950s movie giant monster series. This time it’s the giant Mexican scorpions in 1957 monster mash The Black Scorpion. As animated by Ray Harryhausen.

An obscure sort-of-ally of Batman, decades ago. Brawler and famous race cars driver.

Capsule notes about the non-chickening hero of the classic Back To The Future movies.

A full-on example of a Player Character in the Warframe video game. This also explains Tenno Void abilities, a chunk of the game’s backstory, the Lotus-issued spaceships (pre-Railjack), and the like.

Obscure 1970 enemies of the Batman. And among the oddly few Mexican characters in the DCU. Aristocratic Gothic Horror crime lords who are sort of immortal.

A very very tall fighter and agent, blatantly based on Kareem Abdul Jabar in Game of Death. We couldn’t resist, obviously.

Another game setting primer, this time for Warframe’s baroque sci-fi world. A far future, almost post-apocalyptic version of the solar system with machinegun-toting technogolem space ninja.

A compact review of Marvel Comics’ various Serpent Squad teams of villains, with a roster for each version. These were all low-ish-powered villain team with a handy snake motif. Well, except for those versions with the Eel as a member.

A goofy, obscure, super-dated cliché who fought Batman back in 1963. When the nights were young, when we could do no wrong.

A fully fleshed-out sample heroic/dark fantasy character, based on a weird Path of Exile build. A burning intelligent sword that kills her wielders, darting acrobatics based on a magical proximity sense, a feral huntress with a pet canary, these sorts of things.

The third part of our series of character profiles for Marvel Comics’ Mockingbird (Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” Morse). This one covers the 1980s West Coast Avengers stuff. Our series about Bobbi starts there.

This covers the Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian)’s early life and her original career as Madame Hydra, during the early 1970s. That’s the Jim Steranko era. So hang on to your fez, true believers !

A big, heavily illustrated article about handguns in fiction. So that’s useful to have. This is part #1, which presents the common types of handguns in stories.

A “base camp” article summarizing and linking toward the writeups.org articles that are about weapons. It sounded like a useful thing to have.

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This titanic crab appeared in a 1959 proto-Marvel Comics story, in Tales to Astonish. Giant monsters were hip in the 1950s, daddy-o. There’s also notes about the BODY score of giant monsters, somehow.

The post-alien-apocalypse setting seen in the Defiance TV show on SyFy and the Defiance 2050 MMORPG by Trion. Final fourth of a series of articles that starts there.

The oddest member of Marvel Comics’ Ani-Men, who’s had a cryptic and inexplicable career. But heh, I’m sure this article will get some positive buzz.

Silver Age themed Marvel minor villain wot got killed by the Bronze Age. He was a convenient 1960s/1970s jobber.